After completing the course, it is expected that students will be able to:

know and use the basic methodological tools for the empirical investigation of economic growth

understand how the economy works.

know the basic models of exogenous and endogenous growth.

They acquire basic competencies and skills in the adoption of models for the analysis of economic policy.

The goal of this course is to introduce students to the mechanics of long-term economic growth, explaining why some countries are much richer than others. Topics include: The Solow Model (The basic Solow model, population and economic growth, empirical predictions of the model, conditional and unconditional convergence), the Augmented Solow Model (the Solow model: beyond capital accumulation, measuring productivity, the role of technology in development, human